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**One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisis**Modernity, secularism, development, and progress have long been viewed by the powerful few as benign ideals for the many. Today, however, botched experiments in nation-building, democracy, industrialization, and urbanization visibly scar much of the world.As once happened in Europe, the wider embrace of revolutionary politics, mass movements, technology, the pursuit of wealth, and individualism has cast billions adrift in a literally demoralized world.It was from among the ranks of the disaffected and the spiritually disorientated, that the militants of the nineteenth century arose—angry young men who became cultural nationalists in Germany, messianic revolutionaries in Russia, bellicose chauvinists in Italy, and anarchist terrorists internationally.Many more people today, unable to fulfill the promises—freedom, stability, and prosperity—of a globalized economy, are increasingly susceptible to demagogues and their simplifications. A common reaction among them is intense hatred of supposed villains, the invention of enemies, attempts to recapture a lost golden age, unfocused fur

Who reads Age of Anger?

Author

Mishra, Pankaj

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374715823

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Political Science, Science

Rating

3.68 / 5 (581 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14